Seminar on the Code of Professional Conduct
for Interpreters, Transliterators, and Translators

DESCRIPTION

The seminar focuses primarily on the role of
court interpreters as articulated in the Code of Conduct approved by the
Supreme Court. It also provides an introduction to the Supreme Court's policies
pertaining to ensuring equal access to courts for linguistic minorities, the
court interpreter screening test program, and the demographics of linguistic
minorities in Superior Court. It helps participants understand how difficult
and challenging the work of the court interpreter is.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Persons who wish to become approved
court interpreters. This course is a prerequisite for approval

Anyone who wants to understand what court interpreters do and how they do it in
order to work effectively with them (e.g., Probation Officers, Case Management
personnel).

Anyone who is responsible for managing court services
that rely on interpreters (e.g., Operations Managers, Division Managers, Team
Leaders).

Class size: 50 maximum

OBJECTIVES

Participants will:

Learn what the Supreme Court expects court interpreters to do.

Learn what the Supreme Court prohibits court interpreters from doing.

Obtain an elementary understanding of the knowledge, skills, and abilities that court
interpreters must possess in order to perform this complex and sophisticated
professional activity.

Find out how the court interpreter test program is managed, what the test is really like
(a sample of an old test is actually played for review), and why the failing
rate is 89%.

2004 SCHEDULE

All seminars start at 9:00 AM and end at approximately 3:45 PM and are offered at two locations.

Newark: August 10, October 28,
December 3

Trenton: July 12, September
15, November 8

REGISTRATION

Send the Court Interpreting Section the
following information:

Your full, legal name and mailing address

Your language(s) other than English

The dates of the three seminars you
prefer to attend, ranked from the one you most want to attend to your third
choice.

The Court Interpreting Section will assign
persons to the seminars on a first-come, first-served basis, except when the
Judiciary needs to expedite the approval of interpreters of particular
languages. The Section will notify all registrants in writing of the date of
the seminar to which they have been assigned as far in advance as possible,
including directions to the room where the seminar is offered.